Hi. I am running Kubuntu 7.04. I wanted to make my Linux partition bigger (the one that has the Linux filesystem). I booted from the Ubuntu CD and opened gparted. Then I deleted the partitions that were after the linux one, and resized the linux partition. The resizing gave me an error that I don't remember, but seemed to take place. Then I created a new swap partition and rebooted Kubuntu.
Now I am having the following problem: apparently my Linux system still sees the partition with the old size, so it looks like no resizing was done. But when I go to gparted, it shows that the partition is indeed bigger, but all of the added space shows as used. On the other hand, qtparted shows the partition with the correct size and used space. But neither KDE nor Gnome let me use the free space since they think that it was not added. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Augusto

Sounds like the partition got resized, but not the filesystem. What does "df -hT" show ???.
Most (all ???) filesystems should be able to be made larger. You might have to do it with a filsystem tool (directly) rather than gparted though. Next time you'd do well to take note of any error messages. They are issued for a reason.

Thanks for the response. Here is the output of "df -hT"

Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 ext3 12G 5.0G 5.6G 48% /

So, as you suggest, it looks like the file system was not resized (the partition is about 22Gigs now). How do I resize it? What tool should I use? Thanks

resize2fs is part of the e2fsprogs package - so you should have it. See the manpage.
ext3 is merely ext2 with journalling - you may have to disable the journal first, I don't know. Probably not.

Need I mention my sigline before you start ???.

Thanks syg00!!! I run

sudo resize2fs /dev/sda2

and the filesystem took all the partition. Now it works great. One more quick question: Does resize2fs turn journaling off by default? I did not do it manually, but I have no idea how to check if it's on or not. How do I check that? Thanks again

Augusto

Simple answer would be to just reboot and run the "df -hT" again ...

"tune2fs -l ..." will give you some detail. If it says "has_journal" under "Filesystem features:", it is ext3.
In need, the same utility can be used to put the journal back.

This is what the line reads:

Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file


Is this ok? Thanks